Comparison of accuracy of diabetes risk score and components of the metabolic syndrome in assessing risk of incident type 2 diabetes in Inter99 cohort.

Given the increasing worldwide incidence of diabetes, methods to assess diabetes risk which would identify those at highest risk are needed. We compared two risk-stratification approaches for incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM); factors of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and a previously developed di...

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Main Authors: Tracy B Shafizadeh, Edward J Moler, Janice A Kolberg, Uyen Thao Nguyen, Torben Hansen, Torben Jorgensen, Oluf Pedersen, Knut Borch-Johnsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3146499?pdf=render